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Ricci Calculus Adopted for Gravity

With Marcel Grossmann's mathematical guidance, Einstein began using Ricci and Levi-Civita tensor calculus as the formal machinery needed to describe a relativistic gravitational field.

Albert Einstein photographed in Princeton in 1947
Albert Einstein, Princeton, 1947. Photograph by Oren Jack Turner; Library of Congress image with no known restrictions. Wikimedia Commons source.
Year 1912ZurichPhysics

Ricci Calculus Adopted for Gravity

1912 · Zurich · Switzerland · Physics

With Marcel Grossmann's mathematical guidance, Einstein began using Ricci and Levi-Civita tensor calculus as the formal machinery needed to describe a relativistic gravitational field.